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Paris – The 10 Best Art Museums
Within the city limits of Paris, there are around 130 museums. In order to make your journey "magical", we have compiled a short list of the best museums devoted to art and culture in the French capital.
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Monet’s Gift Is Now the l’Orangerie + Matisse, Hockney & Modigliani
The Musée National de l’Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris is housed in a relatively small building, and yet it is brimming with joie de vivre — an exuberant enjoyment and celebration of life! Originally constructed to house citrus trees during the cold winter of 1852, the l’Orangerie truly blossomed in the 1920s when the French State and Claude Monet transformed…
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Chicago — See the Most Extraordinary Art & Architecture in the USA
During stressful times, when one hopes to gain perspective on life's complexities, the best tonic may be a walk by a lake or through a park, perhaps a boat ride to take in the creativity all around us, or an inspirational visit to a museum. As the poet and mystic Thomas Merton observed, "Art enables us to find ourselves and…
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How To Find One Magical Museum of Art
Tired of cookie-cutter museums with antiseptic white walls and uninspired exhibitions, we started our search in New York City, then traveled to the Midwest, and finally flew to California in order to find a special home for art lovers — one magical museum of art. We visited the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor in…
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Klimt + Gold = The Belvedere — 4th Greatest Museum in Vienna
The Belvedere is a building complex in Vienna where two palaces were built in the early eighteenth century and set inside a Baroque park landscape for use as a purely ceremonial summer residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The Upper Belvedere palace, built between 1717 and 1723, today houses the Belvedere museum — the most visited art museum in…
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New York City — Fashionable Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum
The hottest tickets in New York City during 2023 were for exhibits focused on KARL LAGERFELD and VINCENT VAN GOGH. “Lagerfeld’s fluid lines united his designs for Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel, and his eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld, creating a diverse and prolific body of work unparalleled in the history of fashion,” according to the Met Museum. The 150 creations…
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AMSTERDAM MUSEUMS — Enjoy the Best Art in the Netherlands
With its friendly, multi-lingual residents and highly functional transportation options, The Netherlands should be near the top of your list for a perfect get-away in the off-season.
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Two Superior Museums of Art in the Heart of Vienna
After many visits to Vienna in recent years, we have chosen the Albertina Museum as Austria’s greatest venue for art. The Albertina is the largest museum of modern art in Central Europe. It also possesses 65,000 drawings and roughly 1,000,000 Old Master prints, making the graphics collection (founded in 1776) housed inside the Albertina the most important in the world,…
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The Most Magnificent European Display of Monet & Other Impressionists
The ambition of Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 — 1926) to capture on canvas the passing of the seasons and the changing of daylight transformed how we perceive nature and led the way to 20th-century modernism. If you have the opportunity to view the Hasso Plattner Collection in Potsdam, Germany, you will be enchanted by Monet’s devotion to painting outdoors and his…
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Thyssen — the Best Museum in Spain
The best museum in Spain is in Madrid and, in our opinion, it is not The Prado. We have compiled a list of the best 10 museums for you to discover and enjoy in Spain; but first allow us to explain why we have chosen the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza as our pick for the #1 museum in Spain. The Thyssen possesses…
